Device and element for perforating bands of type-composing machines



se a. 2 1924. 1,501,542

a O. WOLTERS DEVI MID ELI-NEXT FOR PERFORATING BANDS OF TYPE COMPOSING MACHINES.

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I I! b donmifi Patented Sept. 2, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

QTTO W LTER-a r M eDT Be Application filed October 12, 1921. Serial No. 507,394.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OTTO VOLTERS, a citizen of the German Republic, residing at Magdeburg, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices and Elements for Perforating Bands of Type-Composing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The production of perforated register which is insertedbetween the means for key "board.

' These arrangements possessthe serious inconvenlence that the control of the dlvision releasing the punches and the keys of the of the lines and ofthe justifying of the lines as well as the correction of the same in the register strip thus produced offers great dhficulties.

Gomplicated and expensive devices are required for this purpose such as counting devices which indicate the progress of the width of line in course of setting by typographic dots and further apparatuses which wind back the perforated registering strip and which transfer the subsequently punched correcting signs to -the proper place of the strip for replacing wrong grou-ps of perforations. Thecorrecting is further rendered difiicult as the signification of the punched groups of perforation is not always "easily understood. It further has to be con sidered that the registering strip is considerably lengthened by the addition of correcting signs whilst the wrongly punched groups of perforations remain so 'that the "consumption of paper is unduly increased and the composing or casting process proper isfdelayed.

All these inconveniences are avoided by the invention which relates to a device for releasing the punching mechanism, said device being composed of convenient elements and produced linewise in such a manner that registering strips can be punched which are absolutely perfect, and ready for use so that they do not require any subsequent treatment.

The element of whichthe device consists is formed like the matrices of a line composing casting machine with the difiere nce that instead of the impressions serving as moulds for the casting of the charactersand signs projections are substituted which serve for the direct punching .of the registering strip or for releasing :the' punching ,mecha'- nism.

In order that the invention may be clearly understood, 1 shall proceed to describe-the. same with reference .to the several forms of construction shown by way of example on the accompanying drawings, wherein I Fig. l is a perspectiveview of an element in which the type representingprojections for releasing the corresponding punches of the punching machine are arranged at one longitudinal side only.

Fig. 2 is a front view, and

Fig. 3 a rear view of a line composed of such elements.

Fig. 4 shows another form of the element with the projections for the releasing of the punch arranged upon 2 or S sides.

Fig. 5 shows an element with larger projections for actuating several adjacent repleasing organs arranged upon one long side of the element onlyc ig. .6 shows in front view an composed of 2 superposed parts.

The element shown. on Fig. lhas upon the one edge two projections b which serve toree emen lease the corresponding punch whenthe element travels through the punching mechanism. Theposition ofthe two'p'rojections corresponds always with a determinedcharacter or sign. The element has in one of its small edges teeth 0 so that it can be distributed with'the aid of a distributing beam in the manner which is known from composing machines. The reading mark (Z for the composer can be arranged-inthe well :known manner upon the one edge of theelement. The element is individuallyconstructed for each type so that the elements .can belused for composing. llheline which iscompo'se'd of such elements cantbe corrected .prapidl'y and easily by replacing wrong elements by the correct elements, or by adding elements which have been left out, or by adding spacing elements to complete the line to the required length, whereupon the line is justified in the usual manner, the reading marks fa cilitating the reading of the line.

Fig. 2 shows such a line in which between the elements which represent characters or signs spacing elements are inserted. Fig. 3 shows the back of the line with the reading marks.

' If this device is made to travel. through the feeling levers of the punching machine the projections of the individual elements re lease the corresponding levers of the punch ing mechanism so that the corresponding perforations are punched and the perforated strip produced in this manner does neither require any correction nor revision.

The projections of the elements could. be used also directly as punches.

lVith this object in view the elements are made to circulate in a composing-punching machine similar to the well known linecomposing-casting machines to serve instead of the matrices, in such a manner that they are returned after the punching directly into the channels of a magazine to be made ready again for the composing of the next line.

In this case the device is produced by juxtaposition of the elements released from the magazine by the depression of the corresponding keys of a'key board, said elements being collected in a collector which is constructed like the assembler of a composingcasting machine of known construction. The conveying of the elements for punching and for distributing is effected also in the well known manner by means of an elevator which conducts the same directly to a receiving device which is constructed like the distributing box of a composing-casting machine. From this receiver the elements are lifted singly in the well known manner upon the incline of the punching mechanism and conveyed, transversely to their longitudinal direction, to be inserted into the spindles of the distributing device.

The punching of the line and the decomposition of the composed line by distributing the single elements is preferably effected in inverse order as the composing so that the element which has been added last to the composed line, at the right hand side edge, continuing to'travel in the same direction from the left to the right, gets directly upon the distribution bar, followed by the other elements of the line. v

Owing to this rapid circulation of the elements the composing can be continuous as whilst one ine is composed another line is used for punching and distributed so that only so many elements are always in circulation as are required to fill two lines.

This rapid circulation and the low height of the elements are of great advantage for the construction of the composing-punching machine. Such a composing-punching machine can be essentially constructed in the same manner as the matrices composingcasting machine of known type from which it differs essentially by the substitution of the punching mechanism for the casting apparatus. The magazine of such a composing-- punching machine needs not be very high and it can be arranged vertically so that the releasing device for the magazine can be of very simple construction.

A particularly favorable dimensioning of the element designed to produce sign. combinations of two perforations can be obtained if the projections which are designed for releasing the punching mechanism ,are arranged upon several sides of the element.

Fig. t shows such an element which is approximately of the same height and width. An element 8 has releasing projections 00, 1 a distributed over three sides, the teeth 0 for guiding the elements upon the distributing beam of the magazine and the reading mark (Z being arranged upon the fourth side. The

groups of releasing projections can be arranged, under convenient utilization of the space, upon one of the three sides or upon two of the three sides. The reading mark could be provided upon one of the three sides together with the releasing projections. For

the guiding of the element in the magazine there are preferably arranged guiding proj ections f, 9, 71,6, 70 which remain inoperative when the element travels through the punch ing mechanism and which are distributed also over three sides. The guiding projections it and i form together at the same time the angular identation Z with which engage the locking cones in the magazine.

lfgroups of perforations of more than two poles have to be punched in the paper strip, for instance groups of eight perforations of which certain perforations are to be left out according to the combinations to be produced. a favorable dimensioning of the element is possible even if the projections are arranged upon one side only.

Fig. 5 shows such an element by way of example in which the projections. for releasing the feeling levers are arranged upon the one longitudinal edge of the element.

The projections are formed by incisions b, b and they serve for releasing several juxtaposed feeling levers, said projections being flush with the side face of the element. The other longitudinal edge is reserved for the reading mark (Z and for projections i which form between them an indentation by means of which the element is held in and can be released from the magazine.

This arrangement permits to use a very the elements must be first displaced in the direction of their longitudinal plane to be conveyed singly to the punching machine. The holes in the elements register them with the corresponding holes of the punching mechanism, whereby the releasing is effected.

For avoiding the provision of separate line measuring devices the length of the lines is directly controlled at the setting by the elements themselves which are constructed in such a manner that their thickness corresponds with the width of the character or sign to be represented, either directly or in a determined relation to the Width of the type. The line composed of such elements corresponds in width directly with the width of the line of types which has to be represented by the same. As it is how-, ever necessary only that the thickness of the elements be in a direct proportion to the matrices which are to be composed in the automatic composing machine, there could be produced also with the aid of a single set of elements registering strips for such machines which supply a'united composition composed of types of different widths.

' The element can be composed also of several part-elements in order to obtain small sized elements which can be easily transported or, in order to reduce the number of the-fundamental elements, so that for instance ten elements could be used for the production of hundred characters or signs in variable combinations. With such a decimal arrangement in square, the one part of the element would correspond to the longitudinal position of the key of the composing machine to be released by the register-' ing strip and the other part would correspond to the transverse position in the key board. These elements could however not have an individual reading mark for each combined sign. In this case figures would be used in such a manner that the figures from 1 to O of the individual part elements joining at one side serve as numerators and as denominators for a fraction which characterizes the sign. Thefigures are preferably arranged upon the edges of the part elements which are turned towards the composer when the elements are being used for composing.

Fig. 6 shows an element composed of-two superposed parts n, 0 and p, a

I claim r l. A device for the production of registering strips for automatic composing machines consisting of a row of plate-shaped. interchangeable elements composed like a line of types, each element having on its edges fixed projections which represent in combination an individual sign and which serve for releasing the punching device, and a reading mark on the fourth edge of said element.

2. A device for the production of registering strips for automatic composing machines consisting of a row of plate-shaped interchangeable elements composed like a line of types, each element having on its edges fixed projections which represent in combination an individual sign and which serve for releasing the punching device, and projections for guiding holding and releasing the element in the magazine arranged on three sides in groups of two at each corner so that each group of two projections serve as a guide for the escapement cones in the magazine.

3. A device for the production of registering strips for automatic'composing machines consisting of a row of interchangeable elements composed like a line of types, each element having fixed projections on the one of its longitudinal sides arranged in accordance with the grouping of the combined pert'orations of three or more holes to be produced in the registering strip, and each element having projections and indentations on the other longitudinal side for holding and releasing the elements in the magazine.

4. A device for the productioncof registering strips for automatic composing machines consisting of a row of interchange able elements composed like a line of types each having incisions in its edges designed to receive the feeling levers of the punching mechanism.

5. A device for the production of registering strips for automatic composing machines consisting of a row of interchangeable elements composed like a line of types, each element having fixed projections which represent an individual sign and which serve for releasing the punching device and said' elements being of a width which corresponds with the systematic width of the characters and signs to be represented by said elements. In testimony whereof Iafiix my signature in presence of two witnesses. I

OTTO VVOLTERS; IVitnesseS v HEINRICH SIEM, LINA SIEM one. ZEIGENHAH'N. 

